Screening Sheet; Cinematography in Do the Right Thing movie PDF

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Screening Sheet; Cinematography in Do the Right Thing movie entails factors discussed below:
Height
Angle
Distance
Movement
. It also has Central themes, arguments, and/or meanings and How patterns of cinematographic decisions on the first page help the film to present ...

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Screening Sheet: Cinematography in Do the Right Thing

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Height

Angle

Distance Close up shots are

Movement

Camera placements

A Dutch angle

help to contrast

denotes a camera shot highly utilized in the

enable film viewers

characters via

where the camera tilt

film. For instance, in

to get dynamic views.

cinematography. Do

is to one side. Spike

the scene that takes

There are few static

The Right Thing

Lee utilized Dutch

place in Sal’s

shots in the do the

(1989) film has used

angles throughout the

Pizzeria, Pino and

right thing film. The

low and high camera

film to convey

Mookie are involved

movement of

shots.

skewed reality as

in a conversation

characters into, away,

1. Low camera shots:

well as tension.

about society and

and side to the frame

The three main film

Lee thoughtfully

racism.

depicts camera

characters (Buggin

utilized dutch angles

The back and forth

movements. In the

Out, Radio Raheem,

in the film to visually camera in a short

scene where Mookie

and Smiley) shot

confrontation in the

distance between

and other characters

from below when

“do the right thing”

them depicted the

emit racial epithets,

they entered the

film.

negative perception

the camera zooms in.

Famous Pizzeria of

For instance, Pizzeria of black people in

Sal, depicts the

owner Sal gets into

confidence of the

and out of conflict

three characters.

throughout the film.

this scene.

Camera movements

3 This is noted when

In the scene where

The close-up shot of

they demand that

Sal is in conflict with

Budgy and his friends voice of reason is

Sal should change his

four adults sitting at

illustrates their anger

Samuel Jackson

“fame wall” to

the table, the camera

whereas the extreme

(radio personality

portray Black people

bickers these back

close-up on Clifton

character) when he

and not only Italian-

and forth. When

shows his calm yet

moves towards the

Americans.

Buggin’ and Radio

worried nature. The

camera instead of the

2. High camera shots:

Raheem step into the

scene indicates the

camera moving

In the scene where

restaurant, a tilted

attitude of blacks

towards him. The

the three main

camera features them

towards white people. camera demonstrates

characters confront

in a close-up.

Sal, Spike shot the restaurant owner from above to highlight his insecurity and fear of the Black men challenging him.

However, the only

that the characters are addressing viewers.

4 Central themes, arguments, and/or meanings

1. Love and hate among neighborhood individuals. The Whites, African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics in Brooklyn, New York harbor stereotypes, criticism, and violent confrontation amongst themselves. With every ethnic group loving their members and hating their counterpart ethnic groups, the theme of love and hate comes out. Moreover, love and hate spiraled tension. 2. Racial tension. There is tension in Brooklyn, New York, emanating from racism amongst its neighborhoods. The fear of ethnic clashes, fights, and constant confrontations amongst races prompted for heated tension. 3. Police violence. Police officers killed Radio Raheem. Unfortunately, the police who are supposed to protect people and maintain law and order are at the forefront of violence in the film. Characters also shouted the names of other victims of police violence when Police officers killed Radio Raheem.

How patterns of cinematographic decisions on the first page help the film to present the themes/meanings/arguments listed above

In the first scene where a record is playing with conga drums, the camera fades away to focus on the second scene where Puerto Rican men who fall under the Puerto Rican ethnic group. Spike Lee depicts this scene with stereotypes. In this scene, facial appearances, men’s clothes, and language enforces stereotypes by way of choice to show the aspect of racism.

5 When Radio Raheem enters Sal’s Famous with his blaring boom box, an altercation between Raheem and Sal begins. The moves back and forth while maintaining low angle shots of Raheem to the reverse high angle shots of Sal as they continue yelling to one another. This confrontation ended when Radio Raheem turned off the music, restoring peace. This scene depicts the theme of love and hate among races. In the scene where police kill Radio Raheem, leaving the crowd upset, the camera pans from a crowd composed of many blacks to three white men that were staring at them. Thus, this expressed police violence through killings....